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Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia (2018)
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Humphries, M. D., Obeso, J. A., & Dreyer, J. K. (2018). Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2017-315922

Movement disorders arise from the complex interplay of multiple changes to neural circuits. Successful treatments for these disorders could interact with these complex changes in myriad ways, and as a consequence their mechanisms of action and their... Read More about Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia.

Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography (2018)
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Sigurdsson, H. P., Pépés, S. E., Jackson, G. M., Draper, A., Morgan, P. S., & Jackson, S. R. (2018). Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography. Cortex, 104, 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.04.004

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by repetitive and intermittent motor and vocal tics. TS is thought to reflect fronto-striatal dysfunction and the aetiology of the disorder has been linked to widespread alteration... Read More about Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography.

General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer (2018)
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James, R. J. E., Walsh, D. A., & Ferguson, E. (2018). General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer. BMC Medicine, 16, Article 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1031-9

Background: While the heterogeniety of pain progression has been studied in chronic diseases, it is unclear the extent to which patterns of pain progression among people in general as well as across different diseases impacts on social, civic and po... Read More about General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer.

Treatment as usual (TAU) as a control condition in trials of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapy for self-harm: impact of content and quality on outcomes in a systematic review (2018)
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Witt, K., de Moraes, D. P., Salisbury, T. T., Arensman, E., Gunnell, D., Hazell, P., …Hawton, K. (2018). Treatment as usual (TAU) as a control condition in trials of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapy for self-harm: impact of content and quality on outcomes in a systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.04.025

Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the mainstay of evaluations of the efficacy of psychosocial interventions. In a recent Cochrane systematic review we analysed the efficacy of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapies compared t... Read More about Treatment as usual (TAU) as a control condition in trials of cognitive behavioural-based psychotherapy for self-harm: impact of content and quality on outcomes in a systematic review.

Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling (2018)
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Wen, Y., & van Heuven, W. J. (2018). Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.03.004

Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence suggests that Chinese translations of English words are automatically activated when Chinese-English bilinguals read English words (e.g., Thierry & Wu, 2007; Wu & Thierry, 2010; Zhang, van Heuven, & Conkl... Read More about Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling.

Criterion-free measurement of motion transparency perception at different speeds (2018)
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Rocchi, F., Ledgeway, T., & Webb, B. S. (2018). Criterion-free measurement of motion transparency perception at different speeds. Journal of Vision, 18(4), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.4.5

Transparency perception often occurs when objects within the visual scene partially occlude each other or move at the same time, at different velocities across the same spatial region. Although transparent motion perception has been extensively studi... Read More about Criterion-free measurement of motion transparency perception at different speeds.

A probabilistic, distributed, recursive mechanism for decision-making in the brain (2018)
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Caballero, J. A., Humphries, M. D., & Gurney, K. N. (2018). A probabilistic, distributed, recursive mechanism for decision-making in the brain. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(4), Article e1006033. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006033

Decision formation recruits many brain regions, but the procedure they jointly execute is unknown. Here we characterize its essential composition, using as a framework a novel recursive Bayesian algorithm that makes decisions based on spike-trains wi... Read More about A probabilistic, distributed, recursive mechanism for decision-making in the brain.

Does observability affect prosociality? (2018)
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Bradley, A., Lawrence, C., & Ferguson, E. (2018). Does observability affect prosociality?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1875), Article 20180116. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0116

The observation of behaviour is a key theoretical parameter underlying a number of models of prosociality. However, the empirical findings showing the effect of observability on prosociality are mixed. In this meta-analysis, we explore the boundary c... Read More about Does observability affect prosociality?.

Visual crowding is unaffected by adaptation-induced spatial compression (2018)
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Chambers, A. L., Roach, N. W., & Johnston, A. (2018). Visual crowding is unaffected by adaptation-induced spatial compression. Journal of Vision, 18(3), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.3.12

It has recently been shown that adapting to a densely textured stimulus alters the perception of visual space, such that the distance between two points subsequently presented in the adapted region appears reduced (Hisakata, Nishida, & Johnston, 2016... Read More about Visual crowding is unaffected by adaptation-induced spatial compression.

Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice (2018)
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Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., McMillan, N., Xu, Y., & Spetch, M. L. (2018). Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(12), 1905-1918. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000414

© 2018 American Psychological Association. Extreme stimuli are often more salient in perception and memory than moderate stimuli. In risky choice, when people learn the odds and outcomes from experience, the extreme outcomes (best and worst) also sta... Read More about Living near the edge: How extreme outcomes and their neighbors drive risky choice.

New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males (2018)
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Ralph-Nearman, C., & Filik, R. (in press). New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males. American Journal of Men's Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988318763516

The aim of the current study was to develop, test, and re-test two new male body dissatisfaction scales: The Male Body Scale (MBS; consisting of emaciated to obese figures) and the Male Fit Body Scale (MFBS; consisting of emaciated to muscular figure... Read More about New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males.

Multisensory perception: magnetic disruption of attention in human parietal lobe (2018)
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Holmes, N. P., & Tamè, L. (in press). Multisensory perception: magnetic disruption of attention in human parietal lobe. Current Biology, 28(6), Article R259-R261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.078

Paying attention to sounds and touches at the same time is demanding. New research shows how the parietal lobe of the human brain mediates multisensory perception of stimulus frequency and intensity

The effects of instruction and environmental demand on state anxiety, driving performance and autonomic activity: Are ego-threatening manipulations effective? (2018)
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Barnard, M. P., & Chapman, P. (in press). The effects of instruction and environmental demand on state anxiety, driving performance and autonomic activity: Are ego-threatening manipulations effective?. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2018.02.040

A small yet emerging body of research on the relationship between anxiety and driving suggests that higher levels of state anxiety may lead to more dangerous driving behaviours. The aim of the current research was to investigate the effects of increa... Read More about The effects of instruction and environmental demand on state anxiety, driving performance and autonomic activity: Are ego-threatening manipulations effective?.

Sensory and motor differences in Autism Spectrum Conditions and developmental coordination disorder in children: a cross-syndrome study (2018)
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Hannant, P., Cassidy, S., Van de Weyer, R., & Mooncey, S. (2018). Sensory and motor differences in Autism Spectrum Conditions and developmental coordination disorder in children: a cross-syndrome study. Human Movement Science, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2018.01.010

Recent research has shown that Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) can present with some similar symptomology as Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). This paper therefore explored the similarities and differences in coordination and sensory respon... Read More about Sensory and motor differences in Autism Spectrum Conditions and developmental coordination disorder in children: a cross-syndrome study.

TMS over the supramarginal gyrus delays selection of appropriate grasp orientation during reaching and grasping tools for use (2018)
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McDowell, T., Holmes, N. P., Sunderland, A., & Schürmann, M. (2018). TMS over the supramarginal gyrus delays selection of appropriate grasp orientation during reaching and grasping tools for use. Cortex, 103, 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.002

Tool use, a ubiquitous part of human behaviour, requires manipulation control and knowledge of tool purpose. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological research posit that these two processes are supported by separate brain regions, ventral premotor and inf... Read More about TMS over the supramarginal gyrus delays selection of appropriate grasp orientation during reaching and grasping tools for use.

Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK (2018)
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Boyce, C. J., Delaney, L., Ferguson, E., & Wood, A. M. (2018). Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK. Journal of Affective Disorders, 234, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.03.003

Background: Central banks set economy-wide interest rates to meet exclusively economic objectives. There is a strong link between indebtedness and psychiatric morbidity at the individual level, with interest rates being an important factor determinin... Read More about Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK.

Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study (2018)
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Kunkel, A., Filik, R., Mackenzie, I. G., & Leuthold, H. (2018). Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(2), 389-409. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0577-5

Recently, we showed that when participants passively read about moral transgressions (e.g., adultery) they implicitly engage in the evaluative (good–bad) categorization of incoming information, as indicated by a larger event-related brain potential (... Read More about Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study.

Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities (2018)
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Pitchford, N. J., Kamchedzera, E., Hubber, P. J., & Chigeda, A. (2018). Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 262. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00262

Interactive apps delivered on touch-screen tablets can be effective at supporting the acquisition of basic skills in mainstream primary school children. This technology may also be beneficial for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabiliti... Read More about Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Selective modulation of visual sensitivity during fixation (2018)
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Scholes, C. D., McGraw, P. V., & Roach, N. W. (in press). Selective modulation of visual sensitivity during fixation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 119(6), https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00819.2017

During periods of steady fixation, we make small amplitude ocular movements, termed microsaccades, at a rate of 1-2 every second. Early studies provided evidence that visual sensitivity is reduced during microsaccades - akin to the well-established s... Read More about Selective modulation of visual sensitivity during fixation.

How to characterize the function of a brain region (2018)
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Genon, S., Reid, A., Langner, R., Amunts, K., & Eickhoff, S. B. (2018). How to characterize the function of a brain region. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.01.010

Many brain regions have been defined, but a comprehensive formalization of each region’s function in relation to human behavior is still lacking. Current knowledge comes from various fields, which have diverse conceptions of ‘functions’. We briefly r... Read More about How to characterize the function of a brain region.